
Levels of carbon dioxide increasing over Antarctica
News-Leader.com, MO - Sept 29 9 minutes ago
Carbon dioxide levels over Antarctica have risen 2.6 percent from six years ago — the first greenhouse-gas increase above the southern continent ever detected, a group of Japanese researchers said...
... A balloon with a monitoring device sent nine to 19 miles above Japan's research base in Antarctica in January showed that the atmosphere had an average 367.9 parts per million of carbon dioxide, up 9.4 ppm — or 2.6 percent — from levels in a similar survey conducted in 1998 ...